MARK BRADFORD BIOGRAPHY Born 1961, Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles. EDUCATION 1997 Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts 1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2003 Very Powerful Lords, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY Tainted, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY 2002 Caught Up, Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA Mark Bradford, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA That Wasn?t My Car You Saw, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX Project Series 16: Mark Bradford, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 2001 I Don't Think You Ready For This Jelly, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York 2000 Color Theory, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA 1999 European Wavy, Two Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1998 Distribution, Deep River, Los Angeles, CA Floss, Walter McLean Gallery, San Francisco, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004 Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA Fade (1990-2003), Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, and Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles 2003 ARCO 2003, Madrid, Spain (curated by Lauri Firstenberg) Lean To, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Black Belt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2002 Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum; travels to Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Pertaining to Painting, curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; travels to Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY Mixed Feelings, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ghetto Fabulous, Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Freestyle, curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; travels to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach, FL Capital Art, 2001, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Contemporary Art by African American Artists, The Art Museum of Princeton, NJ Fresh Cut Afros, Watts Towers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Black Male, Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali, New York, NY Biennale Internazionale 1999, Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy AWARDS 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 2002 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant Joan Mitchell Foundation Award SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2003 Kim, Christine. "Black Belt," (catalog) Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2003 Scarborough, James. "Mark Bradford at Patricia Faure Gallery," Artweek, February 2003 Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review: Mark Bradford; Katie Grinnan," The New York Times, September 5, 2003 2002 Bischoff, Dan. "Selections: Contemporary Art by African Americans," Sunday Star Ledger, 2002 Colpitt, Frances. "That Wasn?t My Car You Saw," Art in America, November 2002 Firstenberg, Lauri. Review: "I don't think you ready for this jelly," Flash Art, January/February 2002 Gaines, Malik. Review, Tema Celeste, edition 92, July/August 2002 Jones, Amelia. "The Post-Black Bomb," Tema Celeste, edition 92, July- August 2002 Joo, Eungie. "Mark Bradford" (catalog) Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, Essay "Free Trade," 2002 Klein, Mason. Review: "I don't think you ready for this jelly," Artforum, January 2002 --"Mixed Feelings," (exhibition catalog) USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 --"Painting as Paradox," (exhibition catalog) Artists Space, New York, NY 2002 --"Pertaining to Painting," (exhibition catalog) Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, 2002 Von Schlegell, Mark. Review: "Snapshot," artext, Number 75, November 2001-January 2002 2001 ---"A 'Snapshot' of LA Artists," Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2001 "Capital Art: On the Culture of Punishment," (catalog) Santa Monica, CA, Smart Art Press, 2001 Cotter, Holland. Review: "I don't think you ready for this jelly," The New York Times, November 9, 2001 Cotter, Holland, "A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn," The New York Times, May 11, 2001 Knight, Christopher. "Cultural Evolution in 'Freestyle'," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2001 Peterson, Thane. "Art Collectors Get Patriotic," Business Week, December 31, 2001 Princethal, Nancy. Review: "Freestyle," artext, Number 74, 2001 Schjeldahl, Peter. "Breaking Away: A Flowering of Young African-American Artists, New Yorker, June 10, 2001 Selman, Teka. "Freestyle," (exhibition catalogue text), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2001 Sirmans, Franklin. Review: "I don't think you ready for this jelly," Time Out New York, November 15-22, 2001 "Snapshot: New Art from Los Angles," (exhibition catalog) UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA 2001 Subotnick, Ali. Review: "Snapshot," Frieze, October, 2001 Tumlir, Jan. Review: "Snapshot," Artforum, October 2001 Valdez, Sarah. "Freestyling," Art in America, September 2001 Waxman, Lori. Review: "Freestyle," New Art Examiner, November/December 2001 2000 Budick, Ariella. "Post Black and White," Newsday, June 1, 2000 Harvey, Doug. "Gender, Race," LA Weekly, August 4, 2000 Horton, David. "Color Theory," Art week, September 2000 Saltz, Jerry. "Post-Black: Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem," Village Voice, May 22, 2000 Tate, Greg. "The Golden Age," Village Voice, May 22, 2000 1999 Adrian, George. "Curator's Pick," New Museum Website, October 9, 1999 Ellegood, Anne. "A Place Called Lovely," NY Arts, October 1999 Piccaio, Gina. "Pick your Poison," LA Times, November 1999 Shearing, Graham. "Contemporary: Two local shows of radical art deserve to be explored," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sunday, April 11, 1999 Sherman, Ann Elliott. "Art: Color as Concept: African American artists treat 'black' as a verb at WORKS," Silicon Valley Metro, October 23-29 Thomas, Mary. "L. A. Artist Bradford presses boundaries of Black Modernism," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Saturday, April 3, 1999 1998 Webster, Mary Hull. "'Wings of Desire' and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute," Art Week, April, 1998